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Created by artist Faith Bebbington , the four metre long ‘super rat’ pop up sculpture which has appeared on the roof of the skatepark and gin garden walls in the Baltic Triangle is made of more than 200 recycled plastic milk bottles.
Faith created the 15ft long cat from approx 2,000 reclaimed plastic milk bottles collected by staff in the city’s Cunard Building and later cut up by hand by the artist and stitched onto chicken wire.
The Ships Cat is joined on the quayside by Super Rat (previously displayed in the Baltic Triangle) with two new baby rats created with local schools St Patrick's Primary and Childwall Academy.
Quote: She’s the maritime moggie with a tail to tell and is weighing anchor at the Albert Dock for the duration of the Tall Ships Regatta.
EEK! kept standing on the plastic pot and stretching up to see what was on the hanging bird table. I lowered the table and moved it closer, little by little, until EEK! made an attempt to leap the gap. The first couple of leaps ended in failure (and a THUD) but with a few more adjustments the gap was successfully negotiated.
EEK! grabs the very edge of the table and with a bit of mad scrabbling, scrambles on to the table to feast upon the goodies on it.
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Baby Rat being chased by the Ship's Cat - created with local schools St Patricks Primary and Childwall Academy.
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In 1284 a mysterious man in multicoloured clothes promised the towns people that, for a substantial reward, he would free Hamelin from a plague of rats and mice. He played his pipe, and all the rodents emerged to follow him to the banks of the Weser, where they drowned. But the reward was not forthcoming so the piper returned on Sunday when everyone was at church and and played again in revenge. This time it was the children who emerged from their houses. There were 130 of them, and they too followed him never to be seen again. Only two escaped; one was dumb, the other blind.
Not sure whether this was uploaded in its original form or not. This 1936 Riley special, based on the 1.5 litre Falcon, has a supercharged 1496cc straight-six. It has been active on the VSCC circuit for decades, I remember it being an ERA-beater in the hands of Ted Dunn. Now in the hands of Pete Candy, not as quick as it used to be but still no slouch. Known as the 'Super Rat'.
Seen at VSCC Silverstone 2010.
In 1975, with the money I had to spend, I could have bought a stone-stock Hodie Rat and rode the hell out of it for years. And had a great time.
But nooooooooo, I HAD to buy the wildly modded Ace 100 here.
G.E.M. Reed block, ported to the bone (even Schnurl grooves up the cylinder walls) a goddamn Kendick pumper carburetor, and what I believe was a TM125 pipe (no muffler).
The thing sucked dirt through the monstrosity of an air inlet modified for the Kendick and thus needed about a 10-over bore. It never, ever ran right after that.
Eventually got a YZ125X, and onward from there.
Less is more - putting my industrial design to some good use here. Hand sketch to illustrator line drawings that were used as underlays to build Solidworks models for hand off to Superrat Machine Works. Studs on the drops key into reliefs so that the bolt is not in sheer to create a substantial connection. Been running them for some time without having to tighten them up. So far so good...
(Local sculptor Faith Bebbington created a 15ft high cat made entirely out of milk bottles for this year's Tall Ships festival.
The sculpture is on display at the Royal Albert Dock chasing her famous 'Super Rat', which hit the headlines after it appeared on a rooftop in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle in 2016.
But Faith's creation this year has a fictional backdrop.
The tale tells inspired by legendary feline seafarers like Ms Chibley, who circumnavigated the globe as chief rodent control officer on the tall ship Picton Castle, this ship’s cat will temporarily swap her bobbing berth for dry land to join the festival weekend.
But when she spots Super Rat and her mischievous babies sunning themselves on the Liverpool quayside, visitors will be left wondering what will ensue.
Faith said: “When I was asked to create something to coincide with the Tall Ships coming back to the city I was thinking about the problems of rats on ships and the idea of creating a Ships cat came to me.
"The fact that the sculptures are also made from milk bottles was important too as there is a real focus on the problem of plastic waste in our oceans currently.”
The tabby cat has been created from around 1,000 reclaimed milk containers, collected by staff in the city’s Cunard Building, cut up by hand by the artist and then stitched on to chicken wire - and at 15ft long, it’s Faith’s biggest creation yet.)
This sculpture is one of many that have appeared in a pop-up art space in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle area. The sculpture stands at the McKeown Rice Exhibition space in Jamaica Street Jordan Street in the city.
In 1284 a mysterious man in multicoloured clothes promised the towns people that, for a substantial reward, he would free Hamelin from a plague of rats and mice. He played his pipe, and all the rodents emerged to follow him to the banks of the Weser, where they drowned. But the reward was not forthcoming so the piper returned on Sunday when everyone was at church and and played again in revenge. This time it was the children who emerged from their houses. There were 130 of them, and they too followed him never to be seen again. Only two escaped; one was dumb, the other blind.
In 1284 a mysterious man in multicoloured clothes promised the townspeople that, for a substantial reward, he would free Hamelin from a plague of rats and mice. He played his pipe, and all the rodents emerged to follow him to the banks of the Weser, where they drowned. But the reward was not forthcoming so the piper returned on Sunday when everyone was at church and and played again in revenge. This time it was the children who emerged from their houses. There were 130 of them, and they too followed him never to be seen again. Only two escaped; one was dumb, the other blind.
Valencia's mascot Superrat (L) and Betis' one, Palmerin, stand on the pitch before the Spanish Copa del Rey (King's Cup) final football match between Real Betis and Valencia CF at La Cartuja Stadium in Seville, on April 23, 2022. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP) (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP via Getty Images)